A senior gynaecologist who groped a midwife’s bottom as she delivered twins has been struck off.

Khaled Ismail, aged 50, put his hand on the nurse as she waited for the second baby to arrive.

She was one of four junior colleagues who had their legs stroked and buttocks grabbed over a two-year period.

The incidents happened while he was working at Birmingham Women’s Hospital but according to his LinkedIn profile he worked at the then University Hospital of North Staffordshire, in Hartshill, between 2003 and 2011.

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The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service in Manchester was told Ismail assaulted the midwife, referred to as Nurse B, as she delivered twins – and that he had no need to even be in the room.

Nurse B told how she felt a ‘slow but gradual pressure’ on her left bottom cheek so she shifted her weight on to her right foot to move away from him only for the same thing to happen again.

Ismail, from Market Drayton, then moved his right leg so his inner thigh was pushing up against the back of her thigh.

She told the tribunal: “The way he did it was also very sly and made me question myself.”

Professor Dr Khaled Ismail has now been struck off

Ismail, who qualified at Ain Shams University in Egypt, also ran his little finger up and down the thigh of a PhD student during a meeting to discuss her studies, and, almost three years later, groped her bottom as she assisted him in surgery.

At the hearing, the woman, known as Dr A, said: ''I just wanted to speak to someone who was a senior in the academic world but I had experiences that you don't forget.

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''He came and sat next to me whilst explaining and I felt his finger rubbing up and down my right upper thigh. I looked down and saw his hand. It felt like a finger stroking, when it kept happening I knew it was deliberate, I found his hand close to my leg with his little finger.

“It lasted for about a minute and a half. I was in an embarrassing and difficult situation, you don't react as you would if you were calm in your normal behaviour.

"Dr Ismail followed me into my office. I came out from a horrible situation and went to my office and before I could collect my thoughts he comes in. I'm sitting at my desk shocked and upset and he came in and pulled up a chair, I felt intimidated and scared.

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"He had that confidence and arrogance to come into my office after that and asked me to show him the programme, I was stunned.

“This whole experience has destroyed my life for the last couple of years.”

Dr Khaled Ismail was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Birmingham Women's Hospital (Image: Cavendish)

The tribunal heard that Ismail also slid his hand up and down another nurse’s thigh in a delivery suite and rubbed a woman’s leg during a meeting.

Counsel for the General Medical Council Tom Forster, said: "Dr Ismail, a very senior and highly respected professor, pursued a course of behaviour in which he intentionally touched four colleagues - his motivation being a sexual one.

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"He touched each in a very similar manner on their legs or bottom using his finger or hand and picked on women very much junior to him, either PhD students or midwives. This meant that each was reluctant to report what happened as they feared a complaint on so senior a colleague would not be believed and would have an adverse impact.

"Each incident was uninvited and represented an unwarranted intrusion. On each and every occasion his behaviour was sexually motivated.''

Ismail denied the incidents, arguing evidence had been ‘contaminated’ and that the women had discussed their allegations with each other.

There were also ‘rumours’ circulating in the Birmingham Women’s NHS Foundation Trust at a time when Ismail was excluded relating to his arrest in 2014 for an incident on a train.